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| | COURSE TITLE: ECE 313 Telecommunication Networks for Multimedia |
 | | PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC: Understanding of telecommunication services, i.e., utilities of telephones, voice mail, television, videoconferences, cable systems, shared databases, faxes, computer games, e-mail, etc. Knowledge of mathematics at the calculus level will also be required. |
 | | Course overview, information coding, transmission of information, networking, multimedia requirements (includes requirements for presentation, transmission and storage of voice, sound, pictures, video, and data), basics of computer systems as it relates to multimedia, abstraction tools required to describe systems and networks, systems architecture, and needs for standards. |
 | | Fundamentals of signal transmission, telecommunication techniques, analog and digital transmission of signals in space and in wave guides, capabilities of twisted-pairs, coaxial cable, fiber optics, microwave, satellite, and other radio waves, basic concepts of networking and switching such as packets, multiplexing and virtual circuits. |
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